more Mesa Boogie pedals

[crguti]

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_In...dals-main.html

3 more pedals with assignable 5-band graphic eq

[CTN]

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Wow. He took a scooped Recto tone and then scooped it more.

Sounds like a can of obese bees, or some pitiful attempt at a killer metal tone by a fat noob in a pantera tshirt in his mother's garage with a line6 spider half stack. I absolutely do not understand Mesa's fascination with scooped mids.


(that said, I do like Pantera, but holy crap, that clip sounded terrible)

[frankfalbo]

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That being said, I think its brilliant. Add Mesa's 5-band to any rig. Very smart on their part. Bravo.

[Matt42]

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I haven't listened to any clips yet, but I find there new pedals interesting.

[Agileguy_101]

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Mesa: Our amp building skills far outweigh our demo making skills.

[dominus]

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Wow. He took a scooped Recto tone and then scooped it more.

Sounds like a can of obese bees, or some pitiful attempt at a killer metal tone by a fat noob in a pantera tshirt in his mother's garage with a line6 spider half stack. I absolutely do not understand Mesa's fascination with scooped mids.


(that said, I do like Pantera, but holy crap, that clip sounded terrible)

Yeah, he should have gotten a more generic sound, and then scooped it with the pedal only.

That being said, I think its brilliant. Add Mesa's 5-band to any rig. Very smart on their part. Bravo.

Absolutely. All amps should have an EQ between the preamp and power amp, it's where you get the best shaping.

[dominus]

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JESUS

$250 for the EQ pedal.
$300 for the distortion pedal with the EQ.

[DankStar]

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That must be the "lost in the mix" setting. Finally a tone that doesn't make me want to buy anything!

[ratherdashing]

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I'd take the Mesa 5 band over any EQ pedal on the market. They should have done this ages ago.

[CTN]

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JESUS

$250 for the EQ pedal.
$300 for the distortion pedal with the EQ.

FFS, it sounds like a Metal Zone with marginally better low end definition.

[speed2dirt]

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I'd take the Mesa 5 band over any EQ pedal on the market. They should have done this ages ago.

How does this Mesa EQ differ from a MXR 6-band or Boss EQ pedal? For being so much more money, it has to do something different, right?

[Matt42]

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JESUS

$250 for the EQ pedal.
$300 for the distortion pedal with the EQ.

Not as interested anymore .

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Wow. He took a scooped Recto tone and then scooped it more.

Sounds like a can of obese bees, or some pitiful attempt at a killer metal tone by a fat noob in a pantera tshirt in his mother's garage with a line6 spider half stack. I absolutely do not understand Mesa's fascination with scooped mids.


(that said, I do like Pantera, but holy crap, that clip sounded terrible)

Ha, I started playing the video and thought ... that doesn't sound bad, actually.
And then he turned the pedal on ... oh my.
You are right. Horrendous.

[dominus]

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How does this Mesa EQ differ from a MXR 6-band or Boss EQ pedal? For being so much more money, it has to do something different, right?

Possibly the frequencies it shapes:

[ratherdashing]

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Possibly the frequencies it shapes

Exactimundo! (But that's not the only reason)

Every other graph EQ pedal I've seen has dumb, arbitrarily-defined frequency bands, usually based on a simple "make the next one double" progression. Mesa specifically picked their slider values (80, 240, 750, 2200, 6600) based on frequencies an electric guitar is most likely to produce. It's a more "musical" EQ, for lack of a better word.

EQ is a very, very, very powerful effect, and it's kind of sad that nobody else seems to do this correctly. In the studio/engineering world, a lot of attention is paid to EQ. If you think the Mesa pedal is expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet.